Lot'cmthus.] cxix. loranthacee (sprague). 295 



48. L. hexasepalus, Engl, in EnyL <Sc Prantl, PJlanzenfam. 

 Nachtr. i. 131. Leaves smaller than in L. incanus. Bract shorter 

 than the receptacle. Flowers hexamerous. — Thelecarpus hexasepalus, 

 Van Tiegh. in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. i. 16(; ; and in Bull. «oc. 

 Bot. France, xlii. 263. 



XiOwer Guinea. French Congo : near Mayomba Lake, at Mambi, Lecomte. 



Known to me only from the very brief desci'iption reproduced above. It may 

 possibly be a form of the widely spread L. incanufi. 



Thelecarpus ThoUonii, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. i. 166, is 

 .-another imperfectly known species belonging to the section Lepidoti. It was found 

 by TlioUon (754) on the banks of the Ogowe River, and is said to be distinguished 

 from the other species of the section by its thin and transparent corolla ("calyx" of 

 Van Tieghem). 



44. Ij. cistoides, Welw. ex Engl, in Engl. Jahrh. xx. 103, partly. 

 A much-branched shrublet, 1-3 ft. high, whitish-tomentose in a living 

 state, fulvous in a dried state. Leaves opposite, elliptic or ovate- 

 •elliptic, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rounded or subcordate at 

 the base, 8-13 lin. long, 5-7 lin. broad, tomentose with verticillate- 

 branched hairs on both surfaces, eventually becoming pubescent on the 

 upper surface ; petiole 1-1 J lin. long. Heads terminating very short 

 axillary branchlets, which bear 1-2 pairs of leaves, 3-4-flowered, 

 tomentose; peduncle about 2 J lin. long; bract foliaceous, broadly 

 ovate, rounded, J in. long. Receptacle cupular, J lin. long, densely 

 rusty-villous with branched hairs. Calyx about ^^ lin. long, truncate. 

 Corolla If in. long, 5-winged at the apex in bud, greenish -yellow or 

 yellow, the tips of the lobes sometimes rosy purple, tomentose outside, 

 glandular within, basal swelling ellipsoid, If lin. long; lobes erect, 

 spathulate, 5 J lin. long, upper enlarged part ovate, ^J-lJ lin. long, 

 |-1 lin. broad including the thin margins, which are |-J lin. broad. 

 Filaments inserted at the base of the corolla-lobes, 4 lin. long, even- 

 tually involute ; anthers oblong, | lin. long, cells 3 in each vertical row. 

 Disc J lin. high, fleshy. Style not broadened upwards; stigma capi- 

 tate, J lin. in diam. Berry blue when ripe. — Phragmanthera cistoides^ 

 Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc, Bot. France, xlii. 2C2. L. glaucocaiyus, 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 928, partly, not of Peyr. 



Ibower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, a common parasite of Citrus 

 mpdica, Linn., Welwitsch, 4848! on various trees, Welwitsch, 4847 ! Mechow, 90! 



L. cistoides, var. longifiora, Sohinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 52, from 

 Amboland, German South-west Africa, is unknown to me. It is said to have flowers 

 2 in. long. 



45. L. glaucocarpuSy Peyr. in Wawra d: Peyr. Sert. Benguel. 31. 

 A shrub, 5-6 ft. high, fulvous- tomentose in a dried state. Leaves 

 opposite, broadly ovate, elliptic-oblong or elliptic, rounded at apex and 

 base, |-1J in. long, J-1 in. broad, tomentellous or pubescent in a young 

 state, eventually puberulous or glabrous, thinly coriaceous ; lateral nerves 

 slightly raised on the upper surface; petiole 1-1 J lin. long. Umbels 

 axillary, 4-6.flowered, villous-tomentose with branched hairs ; peduncle 



